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I read On The Road but really, truly came to hate the characters. Dean Moriarty is so evil and Sal is so stupid and I feel like this never comes full circle.
by cm2012 1y ago
I read On The Road but really, truly came to hate the characters. Dean Moriarty is so evil and Sal is so stupid and I feel like this never comes full circle.
- zabzonk 1y agoThe characters are seen from Sal's perspective, and I will admit he is not the sharpest pencil in the box (I think Kerouac, who was quite smart, realises this). I wonder what OTR written from Dean's point of view would be like?
- JKCalhoun 1y agoApparently Neal Cassady was not a very good husband or father either — judging by some of the retrospectives/interviews I've seen on YouTube.
- dyauspitr 1y agoThey’re interesting because of it though. Let’s just say they’re “evil” in the ways I don’t care about.
- cm2012 1y agoDean Moriarty physically abuses multiple women, and impregnates and abandons multiple women in terrible circumstances with no regard for his children's welfare. And many other crimes. Sal glosses over them and still idolizes him.
- aspenmayer 1y agoIf retweets aren’t endorsements, artistic/literary depictions aren’t meant to promote the person or personages being so portrayed. The map is not the territory anymore than the mapmaker is God. Holding a mirror up to society does not make one Narcissus. For what it’s worth, Socrates wasn’t very popular in polite society of his time and place either, but rather reviled and given an ultimatum: repudiate your interrogatory work of our society, or die in exile. He chose the latter on his own terms via quaffing hemlock, and he went down in infamy.
- dyauspitr 1y agoWell call me evil but I don’t really care about that. Honestly it serves to make him even more intriguing.